DMSO works better than dexamethasone for uveitis. It saved my sight and normalised my eye pressure.”
Note: In many cases, DMSO can also treat the underlying systemic autoimmune disorder that triggers eye inflammation.
Glaucoma and Intraocular Pressure
“I am 2 months into using 99.9% pharmaceutical grade DMSO for loss of vision due to glaucoma based on your article. I felt like I had nothing to lose since my vision in one eye was reduced to blurs. I haven’t been able to read letters in over two years with that eye. This week, I can now begin to see specific letters and numbers on my computer and the television screen.
I am still amazed that this is real. Sure, it burns like hell for about 15 seconds [as he used a high dose]. But that pales to the orbital bone pain from one of the 4 glaucoma eyedrops I used multiple times daily ... not to mention the 2 surgeries.”
Glaucoma is peripheral vision loss resulting from optic nerve degeneration (the cause of which is unknown) that occurs in association with elevated intraocular pressure (IOP). As such, glaucoma is managed by lowering eye pressure (often with increasingly invasive methods) and hoping that this is enough to keep the vision loss at bay for the remainder of the patient’s life (which doesn’t always work). DMSO hence, is well-suited to addressing glaucoma as it:
• Protects and restores the function of compromised nerves, thereby allowing it to counteract the glaucoma disease process directly.
• Excels at reducing edema (including within the cornea24 or pressure within the brain — which also contributes to IOP), transporting fluids, and removing obstructions to fluid drainage (including adhesions within the eye) — all of which allow DMSO to normalize eye pressure.25
For example, in rabbits, a DMSO-brinzolamide gel designed to treat glaucoma (as brinzolamide lowers IOP) effectively reduced intraocular pressure and showed no toxicity.26 Likewise, in another rabbit study, DMSO alone was shown to effectively lower IOP:27
Readers have also reported that DMSO improved or resolved their glaucoma,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38 including in a cat.39 I’ve found numerous online reports of DMSO rapidly reducing glaucoma pressure pain, or allowing patients to no longer need eye medications to control their IOP.
Floaters and Cataracts
Many complex diseases result from misfolded proteins clumping together and depositing in the body. Fortunately, DMSO’s unique ability to both stabilize normal protein folding and to dissolve pathologic protein deposits makes it able to treat a variety of challenging conditions (e.g., dozens of studies show DMSO treats amyloidosis).
In the case of the eyes, once proteins lose their normal shape, they often turn opaque and scatter light, impairing vision (e.g., this is what causes cataracts and floaters). As these proteins are within the eyes, it is often challenging to remove them (e.g., for cataracts, with surgery, the lens can typically be removed and replaced with an artificial cataract-free one, whereas floaters lack any widely accepted, low-risk treatment).
Since DMSO’s properties seem naturally indicated to treat cataracts, this has been extensively explored, with numerous doctors reporting at conferences40,41 that they had a high rate of success treating cataracts with various DMSO combinations, and many online likewise reporting significant cataract improvement from various DMSO combinations (including DMSO authors working with the German ophthalmology community).
Conversely, I have seen virtually no mentions of floaters in the DMSO literature (with the few that did using the formal terminology, “vitreous opacities”).
Within the reports I’ve received, floaters have had a remarkable response to DMSO (far better than any other therapy I know of), with 27 readers sharing that DMSO improved or eliminated their floaters and only one stating it didn’t help. Additionally, in many cases, this improvement was an incidental occurrence (e.g., after DMSO was applied to the leg).42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68
“I started DMSO maybe 4 months ago topically for muscle spasms and it’s amazing! I have not required a muscle spasm pill since I started.